The Indigenous Languages Technology project at NRC Canada: An empowerment-oriented approach to developing language software

no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Roland Kuhn, Fineen Davis, Alain D{\'e}silets, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva, Rebecca Knowles, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Aidan Pine, Caroline Running Wolf, Eddie Santos, Darlene Stewart, Gilles Boulianne, Vishwa Gupta, Brian Maracle Owennat{\'e}kha, Akwirat{\'e}kha{'} Martin, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker, Olivia Sammons, Delasie Torkornoo, Nathan Thanyeht{\'e}nhas Brinklow, Sara Child, Beno{\^\i}t Farley, David Huggins-Daines, Daisy Rosenblum, Heather Souter

This paper surveys the first, three-year phase of a project at the National Research Council of Canada that is developing software to assist Indigenous communities in Canada in preserving their languages and extending their use.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

Indigenous language technologies in Canada: Assessment, challenges, and successes

no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Patrick Littell, Anna Kazantseva, Rol Kuhn, , Aidan Pine, Antti Arppe, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker

In this article, we discuss which text, speech, and image technologies have been developed, and would be feasible to develop, for the approximately 60 Indigenous languages spoken in Canada.

Optical Character Recognition Optical Character Recognition (OCR) +7

Converting a comprehensive lexical database into a computational model: The case of East Cree verb inflection

no code implementations • WS 2017 • Antti Arppe, Marie-Odile Junker, Delasie Torkornoo